Wednesday, August 17, 2011

From the Captain...

I'm bobbing out here with the sails down and no wind - 100 m short of Aitutai Atoll in the southern Cook Islands. This was supposed to be a 3 day sail, but if I'm lucky I'll get there in 7! I don't want to motor because there's a nasty noise in the drive train I thought I'd dealt with - but I was wrong. To make matters more interesting something is hay wire with the batteries again - I think there's a dead cell somewhere but I don't want to try and sort it out here - so I run the engine and charge daily. The weather is hot, wind is minimal. I was doing 2 k most of the day but when the sun went down, the wind (all 3 to 4 knots of it) went down as well. The Gribs say I should be getting 5 to 15 --- sigh. It's supposed to pick up.